Managing Jobs from the Job Overview

The Job Overview, or Job Maintenance, screen is the single, central area for completing a wide range of tasks related to monitoring and managing jobs, including defining jobs; scheduling, rescheduling, and copying existing jobs; rescheduling and editing jobs and job steps; repeating a job; debugging an active job; reviewing information about a job; canceling a job's release status; canceling and deleting jobs; comparing the specifications of several jobs; checking the status of jobs; reviewing job logs; and releasing a job so it can run.

To display the Job Overview screen, choose  CCMS  Jobs  Maintenance  or call Transaction SM37. Before entering the Job Overview screen, the system first displays the Select Background Jobs screen. You'll need to complete this Job Selection screen to define the criteria for the jobs you want to manage. Once you've selected jobs to manage, you can choose from a wide range of management tasks:

• To copy a single existing job, choose  Job  Copy. 

• To reschedule or edit job steps or attributes of a single job, choose  Job  Change . A job step is an independent unit of work within a background job. Each job step can execute an ABAP or external program. Other variants or authorizations may be used for each job step. The system allows you to display ABAP programs and variants. You can scan a program for syntax errors. You can also display the authorizations for an authorized user of an ABAP job step.

• To repeat a single job, choose  Job  Repeat scheduling .

• To debug an active job, choose  Job  Capture: active job . Only a single selection is allowed. If an active job seems to be running incorrectly (e.g., running for an excessively long time), you can interrupt and analyze it in debugging mode in a background process, and then either release it again or stop it altogether.

  Note

  You will be able to capture a background job only if you are logged on to the SAP server on which the job is running. To find server information in the Job Overview, select and mark the job, then choose  Job  Job details .

• To review information about a job, choose  Job  Job details . Details displayed can include:

  • current job status

  • periodicity, or the repetition interval

  • other jobs linked to the current job, either as previous or subsequent jobs

  • defined job steps

  • spool requests generated by the current job

• To cancel a job's "Released" status, select the job or jobs from the Job Overview list and choose  Job  Release  Scheduled .

• To cancel a job from running but keep the job definition available, select the job or jobs from the Job Overview list and choose  Job  Cancel active job .

• To delete a job entirely, select the job or jobs from the Job Overview list and choose  Job  Delete . Jobs with the status of Ready or Running cannot be deleted.

• To compare the specifications of more than one job, select the jobs from the Job Overview list and choose  Job  Compare jobs .

• To check the status of jobs, select the job or jobs from the Overview Job list and choose  Job  Check status . This allows you to either change the job status back to Planned or cancel the job altogether. This is especially useful when a job has malfunctioned.

• To review job logs, select a job or jobs with the status Completed or Canceled from the Job Overview list and choose  Goto  Job log .

• To release a job so it can run, select a job from the Job Overview list and choose  Goto  Release .